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Re: Forms support in clients
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren New)
Thu Sep 29 00:08:26 1994
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 05:04:48 +0100
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From: "Darren New" <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
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> In my own network management related work, we handled this by coming
> up with an "association" concept that/protocol that has a lifetime
> longer than a single transport (indeed, it is transport agile -- able
> to leap to IPX/SPX or dial-up if needed.)
So basically you're replacing sendmail/SMTP with your own more-specialized
protocol. It still requires your machine to be running when the new document
arrives.
I agree that email is overloaded, but perhaps there's a reason for that. ;-)
